1. How does the wage cost of skill change as the division of labor increases?
It decreases at first but eventually starts growing again.
It decreases with the growing degree of division of labor.
It is unchanged by the division of labor.
It increases at first but eventually starts decreasing.
2. Workers are those who work on the product and those who maintain and repair the machines that make the product. With respect to the continuum of process types that we have considered (job shop, batch flow process, cell, worker-paced line, machine-paced line, continuous flow process), which of the following statements about workers’ skills is closest to being TRUE?
There is typically no relationship between workers’ skill level and the process type.
Workers' skills are typically highest in the middle of the continuum (e.g., in the worker-paced line), and they decrease as we move to either end of the continuum.
Workers' skills typically increase as we move along the continuum from job shop to continuous flow process.
Workers' skills are typically highest at the ends of the continuum (i.e., in a job shop and in a continuous flow process).